THE EFFECT OF THREE PHASE TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract

The objective of the study is to know whether or not three phase technique has significant effect on students’ reading comprehension. The design of this study was quasi experimental research. The population of the study were students who were taking Reading 1 class in English study program at Halu Oleo University in academic year of 2016-2017. By employing purposive sampling technique the researcher chose class A as the sample of this study. Instrument of study was reading comprehension test in form of multiple choices questions. The result of this study confirmed that the teaching reading by using three phase reading technique could give significant effect on the students’ reading comprehension. Based on the Paired Sample Test, it was found that there was a significant difference of students’ reading comprehension score before and after they were given treatment by using three phase reading technique procedure in Reading 1 class with the significant degree of 0.013. Furthermore, there was also significant improvement in students' mean score (79.78). Therefore, the proposed hypothesis which stated “three phase reading technique has significant effect on students’ reading comprehension” was accepted. Keywords: Three Phase Technique, Reading Comprehension